In my exhibition in Madrid, on September 2003 at the Carlos Amberes Foundation, I presented a retrospective of my last creations and also some works of the previous years, so that they would become the link between the present and the past. In this show, there was a work representing four doves setting their flight, entering in the infinity of a blue sky, with all the nuances of blue and sky that I was able to capture, so that they would receive that movement of endless peace.

A young lady… already a lady and mother, approached me and asked me about the price of that painting. As the exhibition took place in a Foundation and not in a gallery, the paintings were not for sale, so I did not know what to tell her or who she could contact to buy the painting. She explained to me which her economic possibilities were and how she could pay that painting.

When I asked her what she had seen in it and why she was so interested in buying it, she replied that her mother was very sick and that she wanted that painting to put it on a easel in her room (her mother’s of course), so that she could gaze at it and get the peace and tranquillity it transmitted to her; so that she could dream that there is a better world which is in that sky she saw, to where the doves were flying… I gave her the painting as a present.


Jorge Rando, Madrid, November 2003